15 June 2012

This is a guide to the files in the Dataverse replication archive for Moore (2012), "Multivariate Continuous Blocking to Improve Political Science Experiments".

-----------  Analysis  ---------

--- repBlockPA.R

Primary paper replication code file.  Work through this file to replicate the findings of the paper.  This file calls all other .R files in the replication archive at the appropriate time, with the exception of repBlockSuppMatPA.R.

--- repBlockSuppMatPA.R

Primary Supplementary Materials replication code file.  Work through this file to replicate the findings of the Supplementary Materials.

--- all other .R files define auxiliary functions, load data, or process data, and are called by the two primary files above.  

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----------  Data  ---------------

All data files are called by the appropriate analysis .R files above at the appropriate time.  For all data files, notes associated with the file in the Dataverse replication archive detail the point in the paper at which the data analysis is displayed.

Several files include original data loaded for analysis:

- repRurdata.mmgosp.comb.RData
- repRurvc1.RData
- repUrbdata.mmgosj1.comb.RData
- repUrbvc1.RData
- iggy.tab
- pangre08.xlsx
- perryData.RData
- simNUXpvals.RData

The first and third include rural and urban sample data from the King, et al. (2007) design, and the second and fourth include population data used to create variance matrices in that design.  

Other files include summaries of rerandomizations (complete randomizations, random allocations, and/or blocked randomizations) conducted:

- lr100reg.RData
- lrBig100.RData
- lrBig100Reg.RData
- pangre100.RData
- perry100allArrests.RData
- perry100allArrestsReg.RData

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